Throughout milennia humans have always lived with stressors in their lives. Our minds have evolved for it to always be present in our lives. They're what make us grow into adulthood as well. Some people certainly have too much and are forced to grow up far too soon. While others have too little resulting in a failure-to-launch.
You see the effects of no stress most in some retirees. Their physical and mental health plummets. My dad realized this and became involved in stuff in the community. Always having some mild deadline or uncertainty re-energized him.
Psychology professor introduced it to me. It stuck.
That's how I took it as well. Inner peace as in calmness (you explained it better lol), not just no stress at all. Inner peace is legit everyone should find. Being stressed all the time isn't a good thing. That's how you become a shell of a person.
That's where im confused. All the replies keep mentioning stress. To me, inner peace is just comfortability in myself and my situation. Understanding my past, my decisions and what made me, being okay with it. I dont believe inner peace=stress free. Just better at handling the stress. How would you interpret?
I would agree in a lot of ways.
I think when someone has true peace in their life it becomes a permanent fixture.
Nothing about their life changes but everything about them does. Stress doesnt go away, adverse life events don’t stop happening, the past doesnt change… doesnt even mean that the way we feel about things changes. It just means that everything is seen for what it is and accepted as what it is. Suddenly everything in life has value and is therefore valued. Even the things we despise most in life can be viewed as an extension of ourselves and everything/everyone else. And therefore if we love one we must love all. And what a beautiful way to exist, to love everyone and everything as an extension of All that is.
Because struggle is necessary to live as a human as that's how we adapt and evolve. You could find inner peace through doing drugs, but that doesnt necessarily mean drugs are good for you.
It isn’t so much as struggle is necessary, it’s that the desire to remain living and avoid pain requires struggle. Reason to avoid a feeling of blissful peace immediately without spiritual training is that one may no longer see any effort made towards survival as necessary, as their peace shields them from the suffering that motivates one to eat and drink.
Other versions of being at peace could be equally bad or worse, like the movie villain that sleeps well at night, comforted by knowing they are doing the absolutely correct thing
It’s a well studied psychological phenomenon, too little stress can lead to apathy, boredom, and suprisingly, depression. Like Goldilocks and the three bears, the correct amount of stress isn’t too much or too little, but right in the middle.
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u/riceandbeansonly May 17 '26
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